Tuesday, August 4, 1998 Last modified at 1:25 a.m. on Tuesday, August 4, 1998

Charles Lyles

WASHINGTON, Okla. (Special) - Graveside services for Charles S. "Chief" Lyles, 71, of Lamesa will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Washington Cemetery in Washington, Okla., with the Rev. Clifton Igo, pastor emeritus of Second Baptist Church in Lamesa, officiating.

Burial will be under direction of Branon Funeral Home of Lamesa.

Lyles died Monday, Aug. 3, 1998, in Methodist Hospital.

He was born Jan. 14, 1927, in Jefferson County, Okla. He married Violet J. Evans on Oct. 8, 1946. She died in 1991. He married Joan Lyles on March 12, 1992, in Welch. He attended the University of Oklahoma. A son, Rash Evans, died in 1968.

He worked for Kewanee Oil Co., Gulf Oil Co., BTA Oil Production and Brad Bennet Inc.

Survivors include his wife; a stepson, Danny Gray of Welch; a stepdaughter, Melanie Nelson of San Angelo; and four stepgrandchildren.